Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim Jefferies

Having your own show, where you're not in trouble all the time, because you're kind of the boss, is a wonderful experience. If I made mistakes everyone was very nice to me.

Jim Jarmusch

I didn't get the degree because in my last year, for my thesis film I made a feature called Permanent Vacation and they'd given me a scholarship, the Louis B Mayer fellowship and they made a mistake.

Jim Jarmusch

No mistakes can be make during rehearsals, only progress toward what works best.

Jim Jarmusch

I love rehearsing because in rehearsals there are no mistakes, nothing is wrong, some things apply or lead you to focus on the character and the things that don't apply are equally valuable because they lead you to towards what does.

Jessica Savitch

Mistakes are not always the result of someone's ineptitude.

Jesse Eisenberg

I made the mistake of writing something very, very short about Obama for this website that I write fiction for, and my father told me never do that again. And he was right. I have nothing to add to a political conversation because it's not my area.

Hunter S. Thompson

I voted for Ralph Nader in 2000, but I will not make that mistake again. The joke is over for Nader. He was funny once, but now he belongs to the dead.

Hulk Hogan

When you start out in the wrestling business, you make a lot of mistakes, tripping over your own feet and looking like a fool.

Howard Schultz

I think growth covers up mistakes.

Ibrahim Babangida

Democracy opens new vistas and opportunities. We should use the opportunities it offers to correct past mistakes not to blunder anew.

Ice Cube

I love any time you can enlighten people to mistakes, that's how I started my career.

Ice Cube

I've been around a lot longer than most rappers stay around. So I don't feel like, I haven't made too many career mistakes.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

In misfortune we often mistake dejection for constancy; we bear it without daring to look on it; like cowards, who suffer themselves to be murdered without resistance.

Ian Fleming

At gambling, the deadly sin is to mistake bad play for bad luck.

Horatio Nelson

Gentlemen, when the enemy is committed to a mistake we must not interrupt him too soon.

Horace

He makes himself ridiculous who is for ever repeating the same mistake.

Erica Jong

Whenever I go anywhere but Italy for a vacation, I always feel vaguely disappointed, as if I have made a mistake.

Eric Church

If I was concerned about my legacy, there’s no way I would ever sit there [and be a reality-show judge]. Once your career becomes about some¬thing other than the music, then that’s what it is. I’ll never make that mistake.

Enrico Colantoni

I believe that no one can teach you how to act, but schools do give you an environment to make mistakes, to learn techniques and to learn professionalism.

Enrique Iglesias

The way I look at it, I'd rather make my own mistakes than have people make them for me.

Enrique Iglesias

I wouldn't change anything. I've made mistakes, but thanks to those mistakes, I've learned.

Emma Caulfield

We're far more defined by our mistakes than the things that we succeed at.

Eminem

I want to solidify as an artist and show that as I grow as a person and make mistakes and learn from them, I'm going to grow artistically.

Eminem

I maybe made some mistakes, but I'm only human.

Elon Musk

People often mistake technology for a static picture. It's less like a picture and more like a movie. It's the velocity of technology innovation that matters. It's the acceleration.

Elon Musk

The biggest mistake, in general, I've made, is to put too much of a weighting on someone's talent and not enough on their personality. And I've made that mistake several times. I think it actually matters whether somebody has a good heart, it really does. I've made the mistake of thinking that it's sometimes just about the brain.

Jay Adams

I missed a lot of good times, doing things that I shouldn't have been doing. There are certain mistakes I'd like to change, but I'm not going to trip on it to hard.

Jasper Fforde

We all make mistakes at some time in our lives, some more than others. It is only when the cost is counted in human lives that people really take notice.

Jasper Fforde

Failure concentrates the mind wonderfully. If you don't make mistakes, you're not trying hard enough.

Jasper Fforde

Writing is not something you can do or you can't. It's not even something that 'other people do' or 'for smart people only' or even 'for people who finished school and went to University'. Nonsense. Anyone can do it. But no-one can do it straight off the bat. Like plastering, brain surgery or assembling truck engines, you have to do a bit of training - get your hands dirty - and make some mistakes.

Jason Reitman

I think it's a mistake for young filmmakers to just buy digital equipment and shoot a feature. Make short films first, make your mistakes and learn from them.

Hildegard Knef

If you have to make mistakes, make them good and big, don't be middling if you can help it.

Hilary Swank

You're always going to make mistakes. That's life. You just want to grow from them and try to make as few as possible. That's why you do reach out and ask people for help, where needed.